It went like this:

Talk about Ray "killer" Lewis and his former legal situation.

Horseshit time filler.

commercials

More Ray "killer" Lewis

Idiotic banter with some TV star or music person.

commercials

More Ray "killer" Lewis.

Talk about the playing field.

commercials

More moronic banter with more celebrities.
 

The Ads

From:    jjrail@bellatlantic.net

Subject:  Best/Worst Commercials

Best:
1. Fed Ex
2. Pepsi
3. Bud Light

Worst:
1.EDS
2.Cingular
3.Mastercard

John
 

The Cingular guys had two really bad commercials before they did "The Artist,"
which redeemed them. Those poor bastards had spend over $8,000,000
before I knew what they were selling. I remember their Smirk-like spelling
and their little pixie logo, but I had no idea what their product was.
They sell corn chips, right?

From:  watsmata4u@monmouth.com

Subject:  Superbowl Memories

I watched the game at my local ginmill.
They had a lovely spread.
Instead of the usual tortilla chips they had 3 bags of Wise potato chips and a bag of popcorn.
During halftime, all the guys formed a conga line and had gay sex.

Did I win the trip?
 

ha ha

Sounds like you already did.

 From:  englishstudents@juno.com

 Subject:   B/W commercials

 BEST:  "I am an artist. . . .I am unbelievably lucky."  cingular.
 WOW!

 Worst:  Roosters. . . . .wake up call. . . . stupid.

 Until I die, I will run with the squirrels..............................BEST!

 The future is here.    NSync...........................................WORST!

 NSync is popular with 14 year sold girls because NSync "guys"
 look exactly like 14 year old girls.

 Pauline

From:   logic@skantech.com

Subject:  Butthead at Superbowl

I'm watching the game with a standard group of friends-- liberals all.
And my neighbor invites a co-worker, another professor from the U.  Not
that I really thought about it, but I would have expected an educated
man to have the same political thoughts that the rest of us do.

As the game starts, this guy makes a crack about Clinton.  It pretty
much sails past me, then there's another crack-- this time in conjunction
with Ray Lewis, the Raven who had his murder conviction overturned
"Just because he got out on a technicality doesn't mean he's not scum.
  Just like Bill Clinton."

I'd had enough.  So I replied, "That's like Ollie North, too, isn't it?
At least Clinton only got a little from his intern-- Ollie put arms in
the hands of terrorists.  I guess he's really scum."

One of crowd asked if Ollie was really convicted and I gave a quick
rundown of prosecutions and pardons (including Bush Sr. and Cap Weinburger).
That was the end of the political comments.

Rick

I don't know anything about the Ray Lewis case, other than it sounded like a hose job.
They charge him with murder, then let him plead to a misdemeanor and don't charge anyone else?

Sounds to me like the cops didn't have a goddamn clue.
He may've been guilty as Newt, but you don't charge a guy with murder and then let him plead
to a misdemeanor. When that happens, it means the cops never had a case in the first place.

Good job of shutting up that asshole Republican, too.

From:  david.jansing@baesystems.com

Subject:  No Ads

I watched the whole sorry spectacle, and I cannot think of one single commercial
that deserves any such distinction as "best ad".
Seems the Mad Ave advertising machine pulled its collective punches this year.

David

I agree - this was a bad crop.
But I did think some were better/worse than others.

BEST
Fergie saying when your prince arrives and takes you away to your castle.
that sometimes it doesn't always work out.

The white guys doing "Wassup?"
(I'm so glad I renounced my dorky whiteness.)

The Doritos ad was a 10, for obvious reasons.

The dog that turned into the alien doing "Wassup?" was good.

Phillip Morris spent $2,600.000 to tell us pink lungs are better than black lungs.

I liked the Southwest Airlines ad when the rich Republican prick gets out of his Lamborghini
convertible with the license plates  2RICH4U so the old guy had the pigeons poop in his car.
Serves him right.

Then there were two real anti-smoking ads - from a guy with no voicebox.

Semi-honorable mention of the Bob Dole ad.
I saw it coming from a mile away, I just didn't know if it was Pepsi or Coke.
(Did Coke do any commercials? I only saw one lame ad from McDonalds and nothing
from Burger King, not that I remember, anyway. The big boys stayed home)

Then there were the bad commercials.

Many of the ads were so boring and pointless.
Why did they even bother?

The Pepsi on the hot bus - total waste of time and $2,600.000
The VW in the tree was stupid, plus it took forever.
They showed a shorter version during Survivor.

The first two Cingular ads were terribly awful.
Had it not been for "The Artist" they would've won "worst of the day" - easy.
(What moron named this company? How cute is "sing" starting with a "C?")

The Travolta movie trailer looked horribly bad.

Sidebar:
Can John Travolta act?
When the clip of the movie shows really bad acting, can't we assume
the rest of the movie has at least that level of bad acting?
Can someone name a movie where Travolta's acting was half-decent?

The Lee Jeans ambulance "jeans donor" ad was too stupid for words.

The Pepsi Chess with Kasparov wasn't worth the film it was printed on.

The Monster.com ad, where the undertaker kept playing with the cadaver
reminded me of the vulgar Pigboy. He loves playing with cadavers more than food.

Yes, it was a terrible year for Super Bowl ads.

Then...there was the Halftime Spectacle.

N Sync started with that "Bye, bye, bye" song.
(Do they know other songs, too?)

Then Aerosmith did that song from Armageddon that always makes me cry.
Not because it's sad, but I'm so old, I remember when Aerosmith used to fucking rock.
I have nothing against sobriety, but they were a better band when they were on drugs.
Then they did a snippet of "Jaded," which was ruined when Prettyboy joined in.
(By the way, is that song about Liv?)

Then came the big moment - Walk This Way with Britney Spears.
I was wrong - this was the greatest musical moment in sport's history.

Raise my rent!

If Shania owns "the skirt,"

Britney owns "the pants."

 I've seen thousands of football pants before
 but this is the only pair I've ever wanted to tackle.

 Then she did the nasty dance.

Oh God, make her stop!

...and she kept on doing it.

...and she kept on and on doing it.

This little girl should be in show business!
She could make a lot of money.
And if she had half a brain or any talent, she could be hueueueueuge.

It was like watching the game from Tony's Bada Bing club.
I feel so sorry for those people watching with their families.
 

So, that was Super Bowl XXXV

...oh, and they played football, too.